LGarvin

Okay.. two notes... First, you need to confirm that the EXE installer really is returning a Result Code of '0'. Quite often the reason for postexecution steps to not run is that the installer returned a non-zero success code, and the failureaction="stop" rule kicked in. You can help diagnose this by changing the rule from…

Bummer. That's not expected! As a diagnostic effort... remove the File Version rule from the Installed Ruleset, republish, and see what the client does with that revision. If it still reports the state as "Installed", with only the File Creation rule, then we can focus on that rule and see what's not working as expected.…

Ok, well this is quite frustrating. I updated the package with the following rules, but it's still not working. Looks like you forgot to put the double-dot-backslash in front of "Program Files (x86)".

No XML.

The rules as stated, most notably the Install Rule (File Version of nppdf.dll EQUAL 11.0.5.3) should cause the package to return a state of Installed when 11.0.5 has been applied. If it's not, this would be something to evaluate further before introducing the question of the flagfile. With the flagfile part of the…

I understand your frustrations, Dan. Patch Manager is an 'acquired' product, and had four years of extensive development done on it prior to SolarWinds' acquisition last year. The focus of the previous development cycles was on feature-functionality, and not on user experience -- unlike the SolarWinds products which were…

Well, that would certainly be a factor. The ConnectionName and the CertificateName must be identical.

What about if you are using WSUS standalone child in replica mode? I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I thought we were talking about a Configuration Manager environment, and standalone WSUS servers downstream of a Software Update Point are highly problematic. Nonetheless, the third-party content will replicate to…

Just as on off the wall test I just set the Prerequisite Rule to Processor Architecture = ia64 and is still wants to install. If that was your ONLY Prerequisite Rule, then something is definitely amiss. Please do the following and I'll try to take a look at this over the weekend: 1. Send me the complete WindowsUpdate.log…

No. PROGRAM_FILES only specifies %SystemDrive%\Program Files specifically. It's a holdover from 32-bit systems, but on 64-bit systems it does not include the 32-bit installation folder tree. There is a PROGRAM_FILESX86 value defined in the documentation, but it is not implemented for use by the Windows Update Agent. As…

But how can i assign agent to communicate with a specific automation server? This is handled in exactly the same way as with an agentless deployment.. via the Automation Server Routing Rules. If there is no applicable ASRR, then the assignment is random from the pool. If you want a client to communicate with a specific…

Thanks, I took the /norestart switch out of the package boot and now it works. I think I got mentally confused between this thread and a similar one I was discussing with another customer where we also removed these unnecessary parameters. <execution> <programs> <program failureaction="stop" enabled="true"…

Great news! Glad I could help, and Thank YOU for your persistance. I see now why the absence of the TOP... ORDER BY on the subquery produces the same results as your original query... because the TOP on the outer query is being invoked before the ORDER BY. So its necessary to force the existence of an ordered rowset in the…

Excellent news. Thank you for the update, Jeff.

I thought I read that the Microsoft Schannel patch MS14-066 (KB2992611) has issues with SHA-1 certs with expiration dates after January 1st, 2016? You did. :-)

I think I downloaded the full version of JRE8 There are only two JRE binaries, and the binaries used for the Upgrade and Full packages are identical. The x86 binary is used with these packages: * Java Runtime Environment 8u## (x86) * Java Runtime Environment 8u## (x86 for x64) * Java Runtime Environment 8u## (x86)…

The script work if I run it manually. Yes, we also need to look at the script. The fact that it runs interactively may or may not demonstrate that it's appropriate to execute in the context of the Windows Update Agent. What is the junk? According to the image you attached, there are 14 sample rules still present in the…

Well... that's not cool. I used the "reply by email" function. Here's what should have appeared: Your File Version Applicability Rule should not have the *NOT* flag enabled. A simple File Version rule will return true if: * The existing file is Less Than the specified version, or * There is no existing file (i.e. the…

So, seems some wrong in the Win7 sp1 Chinese SolarWinds' console Now there's some relevant information. There is *no* "Chinese" console for Patch Manager. Patch Manager is an English-only product. Never mind why I'd even consider you were publishing a Korean-language package from a Chinese-language system. :-)

Bummer. I just checked the docs; it is a required field in the schema. Apologies for that. Lacking any other registry value that provides a pathname without the terminal filename, the other option to consider is to use just the File Version rule. Set "Common Path" = PROGRAM_FILES Set "Path" = ..\Program Files…

Not any immediate thoughts; I've not heard of this type issue before. It's fundamentally impossible to not save a custom report (except cancelling from the dialog, which would have prevented it's generation), and its absolutely impossible to overwrite a report provided by Patch Manager. One possibility though.... there are…

such as "ORDER BY can only be specified when TOP is also specified". Most interesting.... I spent several years writing code for SQL2000 and SQL2005 five days a week. I can't remember ever having to specify the TOP operator on a subquery, but it's quite possible that I never used an ORDER BY clause in a subquery either.…

It not run because the icon is not appear on the desktop. Okay, the icon does not appear. That may or may not be because the script did not execute, but it is a reasonable starting place. Assuming the script works correctly, the question now becomes if/why the script was not launched by packageboot. After you clean the…

Thank you. I'm inquiring internally as to possible environmental causes for this error message. As noted, it published without issue on my system, so it's not anything with the package.

The solarwinds documentation highlight that once agent is installed, it try contact the Cetrtification authority (aka the PAS) I have tried to change the agent configuration by using the policy (like in the documentation) in order to force it to communicate with the local automation server. The agent will normally…

Ahhh.. I saw a thread a while ago that mentioned HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DevDiv\VC\Servicing\11.0\RuntimeAdditional, but part of the issue was that the O.P. in that thread didn't have that key. I'd start with that one. Not sure whether to use "UpdateVersion" or "Version" though; my inclination, though, is to use the simple…

What about being able to get the update events from client like failures to install patch x? The Configuration Manager Agent does not report "update events" to the Software Update Point in a Configuration Manager environment. WUA Event reporting is disabled in a Configuration Manager environment. The CM Agent reports…

but when runing the Files Basic report, the results do not show any files My conclusion would be that there are no installations in that folder ... or that the inventory did not execute at all. If you *know* there are actual installations, then the latter would be the logical conclusion. Are there inventory logs anywhere?…

Thank you for the update, Dev. Glad to hear the package did work as expected the second time around. At this point, we've not heard anybody else experience issues with the revised package, so I'm inclined to chalk this up to some transient/quirky issue with your specific publication of that package on Tuesday.